{"id":201806,"date":"2026-02-27T20:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T20:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/bill-clinton-to-testify-before-house-committee-investigating-epstein-links-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T20:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T20:41:09","slug":"bill-clinton-to-testify-before-house-committee-investigating-epstein-links-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/bill-clinton-to-testify-before-house-committee-investigating-epstein-links-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Clinton to testify before House committee investigating Epstein links – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Deposition comes one day after Hillary Clinton testified and called proceedings \u2018partisan political theater\u2019
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Bill Clinton<\/a> told a congressional committee on Friday that he \u201chad no idea of the crimes\u201d Jeffrey Epstein was committing and insisted he \u201cdid nothing wrong\u201d in his relationship with the disgraced financier and convicted sex trafficker.
The former president\u2019s remarks came in his opening statement in a deposition to the House of Representatives\u2019 oversight committee, a day after his wife, Hillary Clinton, appeared before the same body and called the proceedings \u201cpartisan political theater<\/a>\u201d and \u201can insult to the American people\u201d.
In his statement, Bill Clinton<\/a> said he would have reported Epstein\u2019s crimes if he had been aware of them and referenced his own upbringing in an abusive household.
\u201cAs someone who grew up in a home with domestic abuse, not only would I not have flown on his plane if I had any inkling of what he was doing \u2013 I would have turned him in myself and led the call for justice for his crimes, not sweetheart deals,\u201d he said in a statement posted on social media after Friday\u2019s hearing began.
\u201cBut even with 20\/20 hindsight, I saw nothing that ever gave me pause. We are only here because he hid it from everyone so well for so long.\u201d
By the time Epstein\u2019s crimes came to light as a result of a plea deal in 2008, Clinton said, he had ended his association with the financier.
Before the deposition began,James Comer, the committee\u2019s chair, said the former president would be subjected to \u201ca big portfolio of questions\u201d after Hillary Clinton<\/a> deferred at least a dozen questions about the couple\u2019s relationship to Epstein, the disgraced financier and convicted sex trafficker who died in custody in 2019.
The Clintons are testifying to the House of Representatives\u2019 oversight committee in a performing arts centre near their home in Chappaqua in upstate New York.
During her own deposition on Thursday, Hillary Clinton, the former secretary of state, insisted that she had never met Epstein.
After the hearing, she complained about the repetitive nature of the questions and said she had also been asked about UFOs and the Pizzagate conspiracy theory.
Speaking to reporters before Friday\u2019s deposition, Comer attributed the repetition to a \u201clot of documentation that would suggest that she had a relationship with Epstein\u201d.
He said: \u201cOne reason there were repetitive questions about Epstein is because we went through every email and every correspondence that implied Hillary Clinton and Jeffrey Epstein<\/a> communicated often.\u201d
The former Democratic president flew on Epstein\u2019s<\/a> private jet several times in the early 2000s, but said he never visited his island. Comer said Hillary Clinton had confirmed that Epstein visited the White House 17 times \u2013 as suggested in the presidential mansion\u2019s visitor records \u2013 during her husband\u2019s presidency and had flown at least 27 times on the Epstein plane, which was nicknamed the \u201cLolita express\u201d.
Clinton, who engaged in an extramarital affair while president and has been accused of sexual misconduct<\/a> by three women, also appears<\/a> in a photo from the recently released files, in a hot tub with Epstein and a woman whose identity is redacted.
Clinton has denied the sexual misconduct claims and was not charged with any crimes. He also has not been accused of any wrongdoing connected to Epstein.
Clinton said he cut ties with him around 2005, before the disgraced financier, who died from suicide in 2019, pleaded guilty to solicitation of a minor in Florida.
Comer said committee members would be asking about Bill Clinton\u2019s ties to Epstein, including documented visits to the White House and rides on his airplane, and Epstein\u2019s ties to Clinton-related initiatives.
He said he expected video of Hillary Clinton\u2019s testimony to be released either later Friday or Saturday, and he defended the repetitive questions the committee asked her on Thursday.
\u201cEvery item of evidence that would suggest Hillary Clinton and Jeffrey Epstein<\/a> had a close relationship, we went and asked about that,\u201d he said. \u201cSo it may have seemed repetitive, because there was a lot of documentation that would suggest that she had a relationship with Epstein.\u201d
Nancy Mace, the South Carolina Republican representative, claimed Hillary Clinton responded to some of her questioning by \u201cscreaming\u201d and called Hillary Clinton \u201cunhinged\u201d.
\u201cI hope that President Clinton is less unhinged today than his wife was yesterday,\u201d Mace said.
The claim was rebutted by Robert Garcia, the committee\u2019s ranking Democrat, who called on the Republican majority to release unedited video footage of the proceedings. \u201cTo say that the secretary was screaming, I think, is beyond a mischaracterization. What happened yesterday was a disgrace to be asking about UFOs, pizza gate conspiracy theories,\u201d he said.
Democrats called for Donald Trump to be questioned before the committee \u2013 pointing to the appearance of Bill Clinton, the first former president to testify before Congress since Gerald Ford in 1983.
\u201cA new precedent has been set in America today,\u201d said Ro Khanna, a California Democrat and co-sponsor of the legislation that has mandated the release of the Epstein files.
\u201cNow we have the Clinton rule, which is: the presidents and their families have to testify when Congress issues a subpoena. And that means that Donald Trump needs to come before our committee and explain what he knew about Epstein.\u201d
The House committee subpoenaed the Clintons in August. They initially refused to testify, but agreed<\/a> after Republicans threatened to hold them in contempt.
The Clintons asked for their depositions to be held publicly, with the former president stating that to do so behind closed doors would amount to a \u201ckangaroo court<\/a>\u201d.
Comer did not grant their request, and the proceedings will be conducted behind closed doors with video to be released later.<\/p>\n

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